#arnf

[hermitdreams]

I still love this clip

[girlballs]

see personally i think ARNF kind of also sucked ass as a metroidvania, Because of the rogueli(k/t)e aspects. and also because the core gameplay itself was kind of just clunky and bad because they were clearly too worried about making it superficially resemble super metroid's gameplay

like it kind of fumbled the roguelike aspects because per-area there just wasn't enough room or enemy variety, and the metroidvania aspect suffers because there's no cohesion to the map design- things don't really wrap around on themselves in a satisfying way, and there's no thought-out landmarks for you to be like "oh I should go back to the cool thing i saw earlier to use this new ability"

what do you think of deadcells the game

it's very ok but the. enormous airquotes. """"""metroidvania"""""" aspects felt kind of halfassed and pointless but also i'm not sure there's really a Good way to combine metroidvania and rogueli(k/t)e stuff in the first place

[victorlincolnpine]

Bootheels of the Mecha, p1

(This is sort of a fanfiction of a game called A Robot Named Fight. I implore you to play the game, it's awesome. Basically a Metroid style rougelike that genuinely feels like Metroid in gameplay)

A solitary humanoid hunched over a crackling campfire, deep in a damp cave. Around them sit smaller humanoids, children with huge eyes long since adapted to the dimness of a world underground staring at the larger humanoid with rapt attention as they began to tell them a tale that they must be told, for such is how history is preserved.

We Mole Men don't remember who fired the first shot, but we know it was the Mechas that were the ones that declared war. They were itching to do it, all fascists do, and they were made by fascists for fascist's greed and fascist's wars.

As the storyteller spoke, they brought out a stick of dirty chalk and began to scrawl images on the walls. They drew bulky mechanical humanoids with huge weapons trained on molemen with smaller weapons aimed right back at them. Above the molemen they drew a double helix, and above the machines, they drew a menacing cross with hooked spokes.

They were designed to kill, and all it took was an excuse for them to kill us. And they did so with cruel efficiency. Machine guns, horrifying gas that melted flesh, and countless furnaces to slaughter us and burn the remains so their precious shiny armor wouldn't be dirtied by our lifeblood. Even their foul-hearted creators were not spared the bootheel of the Mechas.

They then drew a scene where dozens of molemen lay dead beneath more machine humanoids. Behind the machines stood imposing maws of metal and fire. Molemen bodies thrown inside to be turned to ash.

When the furnaces finally cooled, there were so very few of us left. Our distant, distant ancestors took refuge in these caves, where the Mechas could not find them. There they survived, as we survive now.

A new scene was drawn. A few dozen molemen hiding under a mountain. Some with missing legs and missing eyes. All of them with harrowed expressions on their faces. The double helix was drawn above the mountain.

The Mechas, thinking we were gone, turned their attention to shiny things. They changed the surface. Erasing its shapes and replacing them with towers as shiny and vain as their armor. The surface glows with their greed, and each of those lights are like a bat that will screech the instant it spots a speck of life in their sickly pristine world, which their guns and fire will erase as quickly as it is caught.

Next to the mountain was drawn an angular mountain of metal and lights. Hundreds of Mechas stood upright, many with shiny armor and grasped onto gemstones and mirrors and other things of a vain and shallow nature. At the lower edges were a few molemen being burned to a crisp by automated turrets. The hooked cross burned above this metal mountain.

After finishing this drawing, the storyteller held their chest for a moment, a look of pain on their face. They coughed a sickly cough, but eventually continued after they caught their breath. To stay alive, we must always hide. The caves are Sanctuary for us. You must remember this, children. They pointed a wrinkled finger to all of the children. If any one of you are caught, you are as good as dead.

The children appeared frightened at the story and especially the ominous declaration from their elder. But one child finally spoke up to ask a question.

Deda, what's a fascist? They asked, innocently enough. The storyteller coughed again and answered as honestly as they could: A monster, child, and a sickness. It's a horrible thing that demands a hand to strike their neighbor, and it builds things like the Mecha to kill what it hates, and it hates everything.

But... why does it hate everything?

The storyteller paused at this before answering: It needs no reason why. It just does. It is hate, child. Hate crystalized.

Are all the Mecha fascists, Deda?

If there were any that are not, they were erased just like everything else it hates, but since the Mechas were made by fascists, I doubt any were ever made that were not themselves fascist.

Ok, Deda. The child seemed satisfied by the answer, but the storyteller knew this child will ask other questions. Probably to her own demise. They hoped not, for the question askers were always the smart ones, if a little reckless.

Can we have dinner now, Deda? Asked another child, prompting a laugh from the storyteller. They looked up the drawing so far and sighed. They were finished with the story yet.

Yes, we can have dinner now. They said to cheers from the children.

As the storyteller and the children sat around the fire eating cooked cave fish, the storyteller looked up at the drawing, especially at the hooked cross. They hated that symbol and wished they didn't have to draw that horrible thing, but they knew that the children needed to hear the story. Just as they were told by their own elder when they were a child themselves.

But they have a long while before their lungs will give out yet, so the story can wait till later.

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High up in the gleaming reaches of metal and light, a lower-order Mecha waited on other Mechas of higher status than he. Holding a plate of memory cells for a slender machine with golden armor bedazzled in gemstones each worth more than he would ever make in his entire functioning lifetime, he stood silently as the gilded Mecha spoke with other similarly wealthy Mechas about boring things: money, galas, talks with politicians and celebrities. Rich people stuff. But eventually, the gilded Mecha started talking about something interesting for once.

I hear that the presidents are starting to get into the lunatic fringe again. Said the gilded one. They're talking about gods and magic and like and how they could ascend or something. Complete insanity, and their idiotic followers lap it all up as if magic is real. Politicians have lost their minds, I swear.

The waiter snickered at this. Finally, the rich fuckers say something relatable. This prompted a vicious sneer from all the gem bedecked Mechas within earshot. How dare a lowly waiter make any sort of noise where they could hear it? The atmosphere in the room became instantly hostile as every eye trained on him in venemous judgement.

Keep quiet if you want to keep your position, cog. The gilded one hissed at him. He winced at the slur, but he said nothing, not even to apologize. The rich would see him scrapped and turned into a doorframe if they wanted it. The wealthy Mechas took his silence as an acceptable sign of submission, and continued their idle chatter.

The waiter stood stock still for the next few hours until his shift had the grace to finally be over so he could clock out and go home.

He made his through the metal streets, multicolored lights shining all around him; reflecting off his chrome finish as he reached a doorway to a tower just as tall as its neighbors. He placed his palm on the security lock and it lit up green as a hologram on the door displayed the words {WELCOME HOME, SERVER-8}.

He didn't read the words as the door slid open with a pneumatic hiss to a metallic lobby with no decorations to speak of. He had enough today, and took the elevator to his apartment without speaking a word to the receptionist.

Up in his apartment, he slumped on the seat with an unsightly clang, lazily plugged a charger cell into his leg and turned on the TV.

The stuff on the screen was just as uninteresting as whatever those rich fuckers talk about in between ads for stuff he could never afford. At least the TV wouldn't want to fucking murder him if he said anything though.

He flipped through the channels to find something he could just zone out to. He ended up on the newsfeed again.

The anchor on the feed today was Bucket Cromeson, a nasal toned Mecha with a gaudy crest on his dome of a head and a carefully polished faceplate, and he was giving a scathing talk about Mechas he called Glitches.

Why are we not allowed to question these insidious Mechas with their aberrant and dangerous ideologies? They are infecting our newly built citizens with disgusting and harmful Cultural Bioapologist rhetoric every chance they can find. Telling lies that threaten our free and fair republic without a single ounce of retribution or even a single fair debate from concerned citizens, and let me tell you, as a concerned citizen, I would debate them if they could be reasoned with.

He held his chest in a show of fake honesty as he said that last part, prompting Waiter8 to roll his eyes. Who honestly falls for this shit, anyways? He turned off the TV cause it was giving him a headache.

The charger cell beeped. It was out of juice already. Cheap ass thing. He unplugged and went to his charging room for the night.

As he plugged in, he hissed out a mechanical sigh. Why the fuck do I bother with this shit? He muttered aloud. He wasn't even asking a question at this point, just whining.

He pressed a button on the charger and instantly went into sleep mode so he could have the energy for another day waiting tables for rich fuckers.

[dougcannonjr]

Always Remember Never Forget[ #ARNF https://www.instagram.com/p/CTr3Zl9FwxO/?utm_medium=tumblr

[hellsite-yano]

Hell yeah A Robot Named Fight! Also man I played Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet back on XBLA.

If ARNF got a bit more polish and fixed some of the more stupid stuff it could've been as popular as Dead Cells imo

[isopodretina]

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[gore-maballer]

i dunno man, bullet hells stress me tf out =T. i just picked up ARNF cuz it was on sale at the time and i was so bored with everything else i had to play. Plus it’s a metroidvania so it has that going for me.

[phgq]

Cebuano News: Plant! Plant! Plant! ubos sa Agusan Up alang sa tuig 2021 nanukad na

#PHinfo: Cebuano News: Plant! Plant! Plant! ubos sa Agusan Up alang sa tuig 2021 nanukad na

DAKBAYAN SA BUTUAN, Enero 13 -- Nanukad ang probinsya sa Agusan del Norte pinaagi sa Team Plant! Plant! Plant! (Team Plant3) sa AGUSAN UP! sa inisyal nga lakang aron makatanum sa siyam ka priority crops sa gipunting nga 3,000 ektaryas sa tuig 2021.   Gihatud sa Team Plant3 ganihang buntag ang inisyal nga 1,000 ka seedling sa abaka alang sa mga mag-uuma ug mga sakop sa Indigenous Peoples (IP) nga andam na’ng motanum sa mga lungsod sa Jabonga ug Santiago.    Ang AGUSAN UP! mao ang kampanya sa pagpalambo sa administrasyon ni Gob. Dale B. Corvera inabagan sa buhatan ni Kongresista Angel Amante-Matba. Ang Plant! Plant! Plant! usa sa mga flagship projects niini.   Ang 3,000 ektaryas nga inisyal nga tamnan ning tuiga kabahin sa 125,000 ektaryas nga gipunting tamnan og abaka, saging, cacao, kape, lubi, bulanghoy, rubber, mangga ug uban pang prutas ug commercial trees hangtud sa tuig 2027.   Usa sa nakadawat sa seedling sa abaka kaganiha mao ang Dinarawan Indigenous Peoples Organization (DIPO) sa lungsod sa Jabonga nga mikomiter og 150 ektaryas nga tamnan og abaca, ingon man sa kape ug cacao hangtud sa tuig 2027.   Ang laing nakadawat og seedlings mao ang Pangaylan Indigenous Peoples Organization (PIPO) nga mikomiter og 200 ektaryas aron tamnan og abaca, kape, rubber ug cassava.   Nakadawat usab ang Kitcharao, Jabonga, Santiago, Tubay Hill Tribe nga mikometer og 300 ektaryas alang sa mga crops nga saging, abaca, ug falcatta sa mga luna nga nahimutang sa lungsod sa Santiago.   Sundan ang pagpanghatud sa seedling sa abaka sa mga mag-uuma ug IPs sa lungsod sa Kitcharao ugma. Himoon usab kini sa uban pang mga lungsod sa mosunod nga mga bulan. Gawas sa pagpadangat og seedling ipahiluna usab sa AGUSAN UP! nga makamugna ang grupo nga magbarug unya alang sa Abaca Industry Cluster og nursery sa abaca.   Mahinumdoman nga dul-an sa 500 ka mag-uuma ug IPs ang gihatagan sa Team Plant3 og Farm Planning ug Financial Literacy Seminars sugod sa milabay’ng Septiyembre isip kabahin sa pag-andam kanila alang sa pagpananum nga gisugdan niadtong Disyembre.      Magpadayon gihapon ang maong mga seminar samtang magpadayon na ang pagpananum sugod ning bulana ug sa tibuok na’ng tuig.   Dungan niini, gipahiluna usab karon sa Team Process! Process! Process! (Team Process3) ang Abaca Handicraft Processing Village sa Syudad sa Cabadbaran, ang mahimong pasilidades unya sa advance na nga processing activities sa Abaca.   Himoon ang pagpahiluna sa maong processing village samtang pakusgan usab ang suporta sa abaca fiber consolidation ingon man ang ug primary ug pipila ka secondary processing work sa San Isidro United Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative (SIUFMULCO).   Ang nahisgutang mga pagpahiluna sa value chain sa abaca kabahin sa nalatid nga roadmap sa mga stakeholders niini nga kab-oton ang kinatibuk-ang halin nga Php2 bilyones pag-abot sa tuig 2027.   Sa maong pagpadangat og seedling mapasalamaton ang mga mag-uuma ug IPs. Sumala pa kang Datu Randy Catarman, Chairman sa DIPO, daku na og ikatabang sa iyang mga membro ang natunol nga mga seedlings sa abaca. Ilang plano nga ibutang ang maong mga seedling sa sa ilang commonal area aron pasanayon ug magsilbing tinubdan na unya sa uban pang saha nga ilang itanum.   Kaabag sa probinsya sa pagpalambo sa abaca industry cluster ang Caraga Office sa Philippine Fiber Development Authority (PhilFida-Caraga) nga nag-produce sa mga seedling nga inisyal nga giapod apod ug iapod-apod pa unya, ingon man ang Agusasn del Norte Office sa Department of Trade and Industry (DTI-Agusan del Norte) nga mikometer na nga mosuporta pagpahiluna sa mga pasilidades nga kinahanglanon unya sa Abaca Processing Village ug ang Baug CARP Multi-Purpose Cooperative nga maoy nagpahulam sa mga mag-uuma ug IPs alang sa kabahin sa mga galastuhan pagtanum og abaka. (Angel Lyn F. Gaviola & Arnfe Flores, Agusan Up, LGU Agusan del Norte/PIA Agusan del Norte)  

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References:

* Philippine Information Agency. "Cebuano News: Plant! Plant! Plant! ubos sa Agusan Up alang sa tuig 2021 nanukad na." Philippine Information Agency. https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1063710 (accessed January 13, 2021 at 05:03PM UTC+08).

* Philippine Infornation Agency. "Cebuano News: Plant! Plant! Plant! ubos sa Agusan Up alang sa tuig 2021 nanukad na." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1063710 (archived).

[savingcontent]

A Robot Named Fight!, a Metroidvania roguelike is only $1.99 on both Steam and Switch until July 25th

A Robot Named Fight!, a Metroidvania roguelike is only $1.99 on both Steam and Switch until July 25th

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[garbage86]

#Repost @sd_tactical_arms with @get_repost ・・・ If you have great handguard ideas let us know we can make it happen. https://www.instagram.com/p/B1_OdS-ArNF/?igshid=tqprdq17xvla

[the-writer1988]

Upcoming MCU Stories!

I do not really post much on tumblr. I tend to chat with @doodlegirl1998 because she’s just awesome and amazing and I love Vital For Understanding (seriously go read it – you won’t regret it!!!)

But I figured I’d share what stories I have planned that will someday see the light (I hope).

In addition to Fateful Choices which has turned into an epic now and my own version of Infinity War… I have different ideas in my head, ones of which I’d like to explore.

First up is a potential sequel to Reunion. I do not have a title yet or even an inkling what it will be about but from having built up Tony and Pepper’s reunion after Civil War, I’d quite like to tackle their wedding day. I’m just waiting to see if Infinity War confirms whether they are already married or if they are still engaged. This fic will be written regardless of the outcome…

Next up… officially, is a story I am working on when I’m not working on Fateful Choices is….

A Road Not Followed - Nick Fury chose to not involve Tony Stark in integrating Steve back into society when the super-soldier was found in the ice in 2011. But what if he did? Avengers AU. Slow-burn. Steve/Tony.

ARNF is a story idea I’ve wanted to write for a while. And I am in the process of planning it out and starting the writing process. It’s a slow-burn Stony and will cover across the MCU but there will be major differences. It’s likely I will start posting this at some point in the next two months… Though updates will probably be more sporadic until Fateful Choices is finished.  

In the idea/planning stage currently is another idea I have… this time it is a FrostIron story.

Within the Cells of Asgard – Loki kidnaps Tony whilst masquerading as Odin as revenge for the Engineer ruining his plans to take over Earth.

There is more to this idea than the simple revenge story and I hope it will work. I have no idea when I will write this but it will be written at some point. It will be a slow-burn.

These are the stories I hope to write over the next year or so but it all depends on my creativity and how much work sucks up my time. But both will be written!

I hope.

the-writer1988

[retrogamerj]

Modern Gaming: A Robot Named Fight! (Nintendo Switch) Review

A new edition of Modern Gaming Reviews is up, and we check out a Metroidvania style game on the Nintendo Switch. The game is called A Robot Named Fight! as it is Metroid inspired in many ways. If you didn’t know, the term Metroidvania was coined due to Metroid and Castlevania implementing similar ideas during the last 25 years. Even though Nintendo’s sci-fi themed game was the series that used this the most, Castlevania was no slouch either. It is true CV was mostly an action platformer, but CVII on the NES and Symphony of the Night on the PS1 also used such concepts. That is the reason for the coined term because both series popularized the genre. MV has gone through its own evolution over the years especially in these retro style releases. However, they not only keep things faithful but push the original ideas further with improvements. A Robot Named Fight! was made by a sole developer named Matt Bitner in 2017 when it originally released. Even since it came out Matt has updated the software that greatly improved the game. The updates served to give more content and features to increase the value of ARNF. However, unlike Outbuddies and Axiom Verge that strived for an 8-bit MV experience, ARNF goes more for Super Metroid. Nintendo’s 16-bit classic is still the gold standard in the genre as many for years tried to emulate its style and level design. There is a difference as Matt made a randomizer rogue MV to the likes we haven’t seen before. The only other time I played a randomizer was both the Modern and Super Randomizers from Zelda Classic based on the first game. ARNF does this too but also with each room throughout a seed which Modern and Super Randomizer of LOZ1 did not do.

A Robot Named Fight! (Nintendo Switch) Review

[girlballs]

hey this might be annoying idk but like. if you like 2D Metroid there's this game on Switch that's only $2 right now called A Robot Named Fight and I love it a ton tbh

if you've got $2 to spare, it is so worth it imo. anyway. it's like a Super Metroid roguelite -- I know that sounds terrible, or I thought it sounded terrible tbh, but I had a ton of fun

oh I've actually had ARNF on steam for a while now! it's so good but I really do hope we get a sequel at some point with a deeper content & environment pool, because as much as i enjoy the game it doesn't take long to start seeing the grid. or maybe something like a Megaman X4 situation where you can play runs as an alternate melee character or something

[keengamercom]

Take down every #ARNF boss with ease with this all-in-one boss #Guide! #IndieGame

[dougcannonjr]

Always Remember Never Forget! Happy birthday 🎉 Gord. Thank you for all the great music. #ARNF #withoutmusiclifewouldbeamistake https://www.instagram.com/p/CK9itH5H0lY/?igshid=1uow61gwyskld

[priscilagenaro]

Aulas de violão, guitarra, baixo, cavaquinho, violino, teclado, bateria, piano, saxofone, flauta e canto para todas as idades. #fides #fidescultural #fides10anos #musica #paulogenaro #aulademusica #violino #teclado #teoriamusical #violao #itaquera #piano (em Fides Centro Cultura Lazer e Saúde) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4f7M1-ARnF/?igshid=1cdmggv3ybtsh